Chairman, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Shabbar Zaidi has constituted an Anomaly Committee in order to identify and remove the technical and legal anomalies in the Finance Bill 2019. According to an office order issued by the FBR here on Tuesday, the committee will be chaired by renowned tax expert and Member Tax Reform Commission (TRC) Ashfaq Tola whereas the co-chairman of the committee will be Dr Hamid Ateeq Sarwar, Member (IR-Policy), FBR. Other members of the committee are Abid Shaban, Zia Awan, Muhammad Awais, Asif Haroon, Abdul Qadir Memon, Amer Javed, Iftikhar Taj and Muhammad Rafique.

The TORs of the committee will be to review the identified and submitted anomalies and to advise FBR on removal of anomalies. Technical and legal anomalies can be submitted on or before close of office hours on June 21, 2019 to the co-chairman, Anomaly Committee-Technical in his office at Room No. 355, 3rd Floor, FBR House, Islamabad. The committee can also be reached at the e-mail "[email protected]".

When contacted, Ashfaq Tola said that the Anomaly Committee would give best possible solution of the anomalies to the FBR chairman for resolving the issues raised by the taxpayers.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019